Sociolinguistics 8, Exercise 2: the accent judgment

What is wrong: the article defines linguistic discrimination as "the unfair
treatment of people based upon their use of language", including accent. It
reports that some accents carry more prestige than others depending on
cultural context, and that research links some accents to lower *perceived*
intelligence. The manager is reading prestige as intelligence. The source of
the judgment is social perception, in line with the Standard language
article's point that superiority beliefs are "firmly rooted in social
perceptions rather than any objective evaluation".

What the article cannot tell you: whether this candidate is capable (accent
says nothing about that), and, from the text I read, the details of the
underlying studies. It does not describe matched-guise tests, and I have not
traced the research it cites.

Source: Wikipedia, Linguistic discrimination (first 100,000 characters);
Standard language.